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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
spirochaete /ˈspʌɪrə(ʊ)kiːt/ (US spirochete)

▶noun a flexible spirally twisted bacterium of an order (Spirochaetales) including that responsible for syphilis.

– origin C19: from spiro-1 + Gk khaitē ‘long hair’.

'spirochaete' also found in these Oxford entries:

spiro- - treponeme

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